Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeLowave Collection
Lowave's film and video collection has been built between 2002 and 2014 and features over 250 video artists and filmmakers from around the world. The label has contributed to an important number of international exhibitions, biennials, film and video festivals, as well as academic programmes. As Lowave's activities evolve, we have stopped our film distribution and our catalogue serves now as an archive that documents over a decade of film and video art history. A selection of our DVDs is on sale at Re:Voir in Paris.
Theo Eshetu
*1958, London, UK. Lives and works in London, UK.
Theo Eshetu has worked in media art since 1982, creating installations, video art works, and television documentaries. As a videomaker, he explores the expressive capabilities of the medium and the manipulation of the language of television. Exploring themes and imagery from anthropology, art history, scientific research, and religious iconography, he attempts to define how electronic media shape identity and perception. World cultures, particularly the relationship of African and European cultures, often inform Eshetu’s work.
Al Fadhil
*1955, Basrah, Iraq, lives and works in Lugano, Switzerland.
Al Fadhil, is a multidisciplinary artist (painting, installation, photography, performance, video art) who studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence (Italy). He has participated in many international art events and workshop residencies. He worked at the “Cité Internationale des Arts” (Paris) in 2000, 2004 and 2005, Dubai Art Symposium 2004, and Taipei Art University 2005. He has held exhibitions in various venues across Europe and other continents including the Bonndorf Museum (D), 2000; Sharjah Biennale (UAE), 2003; Venice Biennale, off performance (I), 2003; Rome University Museum / MLAC (I), 2004; Emergency Biennale I, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F), 2005; Kuandu Museum, Taipei (TW), 2005, and the Punish Kamp project, Berlin 2006.
Helga Fanderl
*1947, Ingolstadt, Germany. Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France.
Born in Ingolstadt in 1947. Studied German, Romance Languages and Literature in Munich, Paris and Frankfurt/Main (1967-1973). Studied at the Art School, “Städelschule”, in Frankfurt/Main (1987-1992) and at Cooper Union in New York City (1992-1993). Since 1990 her work is represented in film museums, museums of modern and contemporary art, exhibition spaces, galleries, art house cinemas, and other locations she has selected: Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt/Main.; Arsenal, Berlin; Portikus, Frankfurt/Main.; Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Basel; Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main.; Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Genf; Musée d’Art Moderne, Strasbourg; Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main.; Ausstellungsraum Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt/Main.; Galerie König and Johanneskirche, Hanau; Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris; Xenix, Zürich; Filmpodium, Zürich; Kino im Kunstmuseum, Bern; L’Entrepôt, Paris; Centre Bruxelles-Wallonie, Paris; Babylon Mitte, Berlin; Cineteca di Bologna; Mal Seh’n Kino, Frankfurt/Main.; Stadtkino Basel; Forum des images, Paris; Studio Galande, Paris; Goethe House, New York; The New York Public Library, New York; Theater in der Garage, Erlangen; Theater am Turm (TAT), Frankfurt/Main.; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris.
Her films are featured in the following collections: Hans Bodenmann, Basel; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main; Auditorium du Louvre, Paris. Awards and scholarships: 1992 Coutts Contemporary Art Award, 1998 German Film Critique’s Award / category experimental film, 1999-2000 Scholarship Hessische Kulturstiftung in Paris; 2000 Hessischer Kulturpreis.
Ismail Farouk
*1973, Durban, South Africa, lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
Ismail Farouk is an artist and urban geographer. In his practice, he focuses on developing creative responses to racial hatred, social injustice and ghettoization. Currently, he holds the position of Researcher at the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town); he is responsible, there, for the Central Citylab project and, in this context, focuses on urban cultures. His work has appeared in several exhibitions: Afropolis (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, 2010); Urban Concerns (Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2008); ZA: Young Art from South Africa (Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy, 2008; Apartheid: The South African Mirror (CCCB, Barcelona, 2007). In 2008, he was a fellow at the MAK Centre for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; this residency gave rise to the exhibit Canceled Without Prejudice (2008-2009). Ismail Farouk was the first recipient of the Sylt Quelle Cultural Award for Southern Africa (2008), presented by the Goethe Institut, South Africa.
